Intro
A D E A D (strum D once and mute)

Tropical island, Oh oh oh oh
Tropical island, Oh oh oh oh
Feel the sea breeze waiting
to lay you down just like a diamond
Oh oh oh oh

Courageous peufis by design
Blankets filled with iodine
Lover come again just fine meet us in one day
Ring ding battering ram
Full discecle battle plan
D E (let ring)
He who sells his percodines one day

Tropical island, Oh oh oh oh

When i’m a sad sight, Oh oh oh oh
When I’m just bagpipes, Oh oh oh oh
I want to make it know you
Befriend me long after my twilight,
Oh oh oh oh

Whitest oceans often sigh
Just enough to color it nice
Who’s your willing sacrifice meet us in one day
Ring ding another one dies
Watching posers scandalize
D E (let ring)
Trading of their panty lines one day

Tropical island, Oh oh oh oh

Dreaming of a taxi which colors my dismay
it’s in a tunnel the sun discounts the rain
for all those blow horns just crying where you are
the light is out there tears eclipse the sun
is just to far

Whitest oceans often sigh
Just enough to color it nice
Who’s your willing sacrifice meet us in one day
Ring ding another one dies
Watching Posers scandalize
Trading of their panty lines one day

Tropical island, Oh oh oh oh

For the intro you could play only the 2nd and 3rd string for Bm and the 3rd and 4th fr G and F#

All the women in the factory
when their faces blow a fuse it’s a miracle
i have to feed them facts to be alone
F# F# (hit)
magnifico!

oh, fellas and umbrellas in the middle of the night
what you gonna do when the menanites bite?
lock lips in the teddy boy’s cheverolet
dutch tips and you’re punked in the alleyway

novotel; the phone’s tapped anyway
novotel; i need something of my own
no dice, i feed them facts to be alone
and alone and alone, yeah

smoke crack like isaac asimov
faux black delayed reaction of
sure enough she’s snuggling up to me
i’ve got to feed them facts

she never listened when i tell her that i want to go
she should have come when i invited you to see my show
gee it’s a pitty that your momma had to get away
F# Bm (hit)
i’ve got to break for the holiday

down in the factory

D|—-5-4——————–0—|
A|——–5-4——–0-1-2-4—2-|
E|-3————-2-3————-|

i’ve got to bring them back to me

D|-5-|

cus if you care

D|-5-4-|
i don’t want to come back to there

Down in the factory
when their faces blow a fuse it’s a miracle
i have to feed them facts to be alone
F# F# (hit)
magnifico!

and the women don’t look back to me
i got a motel momma down in the cannery
i’ve got to feed them facts to be alone
F# Bm (slide out)
and alone and alone, yeah

Listen to the record to get the unique and totally necessary strumming pattern!

Down on the street there’s a police attack
And you’ve got to find out
So you suck on a cranberry candy

They look so sad when you call 911
But you’ve got to report them for
Criminal classification

What can I do? White light turns into blue
You know it’s easy, so very easy
Ebm B F#7…
I’m in trouble like a dirty stinking jew

Pepe Le Pew singing ‘What can I do?’
Still I go on vacations
And act like the queen of injustice

And the girl on the subway who sleeps on her back
And she’s got to relax
When I speak of the pleasures of silence

I want to play, who threw my toys away
And gave me coffee, who wants some coffee?
I’m in business on the wrong side of your bay

My heart be still, white light deploy at will
My little brother, I want another
Come together now for one enchanting thrill

Adam:
Drowning head first in my blue life jacket
Plucked from the rues of a funeral casket
Here baby cheers when I’m wandering near you
How’s the broken hearted blues?

Don’t overthink when they say “I told you”
Lay off the booze as the video blows you
Bring on the cheer

I want to be here but
I’ve got this terrible problem

Instrumental (chords of verse)

All my friends had left the feeling I’d sober
I was a chef on the Red October
Who lost his spine, who’s paid to feel fine
And just for ugly babies who are often unkind
I pushed away those concerts where the privileged come to play
I chopped down disciples who’d been clean for just one day
A f#m
Despite my attitude was poised to discover
hm (E)
I’d change the news to find just one jealous lover

And I love her on time

Loribeth:

Chocomel, fanta pop, Easter basket
Dos mojitos en la discothequa
Not supposed to eat after midnight
I think we have a terrible problem

Together:

Don’t overthink when they say “I told you”
Lay off the booze as the video blows you
Bring on the cheer

I want to be here but
I think I’m turning into a monster deer

Hello

Hello

Hello

Hello

Hello

Hello

8 – 9

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Capo on 3rd

D Em G A X2

The Sandman has given me a special gift
A sleepy dream memory of our first kiss
Cast a shadow in my direction
Cast a shadow in my direction
Bring back shadows of your affection
Cast a shadow in my direction

If the Sandman comes tonight I have a request
A snapshot dreamy keepsake of your embrace

(Continue this chord pattern thoughout)

Pay The Toll

I Had to pay the toll
I c[Eb/E#]ould lose son in uptown stroll
How do you need me so much
Know I’m out of love
Could satisfay you
I had to cut the cheese? (go on)

Any kind of love is a needle in the head
When you get down
They need me day to day
How many drugs does it take to find something to say?

(Solo)
Go on with this (simple rhythm)

[-] [-] [-]

Eb / E# e—x—-|
h—-x———————-|
g—-x———————-|
d—-6———————-|
a—–8———————|
e—–x———————|

tuning: standard (but might be half-step down)

chords: C F G G7 Cmaj7 F7
0| 1| 3| 1| 0| 1|
1| 1| 0| 0| 0| 1|
0| 2| 0| 0| 0| 2|
2| 3| 0| 0| 2| 1|
3| 3| 2| 2| 3| 3|
x| 1| 3| 3| x| 1|

when I checked into that hotel

I couldn’t keep from making a living hell

I took off my jewelry and rented a movie

then I tried to call you ‘cause something confused me

I went for a walk to find some blood

with the blinders eyes on my miserable mug

breaking locks and getting shocked

noone should ever hold me up

I’ve been too aweful to ever be thoughtful

to ever be ni-i-i-ice

when I took off my winter clothes

my body looked like fourty or fifty crows

alone in my mansions I had to command you

but I was just escaping your conjugal sand dunes

now I’m like this a bare-chested ghoul

with his cigarette-eyes and his visible drool

breaking locks and getting shocked

noone should ever hold me up

I’ve been too aweful to ever be thoughtful

to ever be ni-i-i-ice

breaking locks and getting shocked

noone should ever hold me up

I’ve been too aweful to ever be thoughtful

to ever be ni-ce

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enjoy!

Some boys like to go and get married
Some girl you know she?d love to get high, boy
When I had to go weak with no love ?tween the sheets
Oh, man, we had an awful fight

Watching old movies in the evening time
Get down grooving when the moonlight shines
That?ll teach a woman not to get too bold
Hauling around with a faceless Johnny,
Johnny please,
Johnny please,
Listen to me boy
Sometimes she did not show
And you have to walk around like this, nothing wrong
Then I got the word to go

Watching old movies in the evening time
Vacuuming, lost inside a house of chimes
Oh
There?s no easy way out from here, no
There?s no easy way out from here, babe

Here is the basic pattern when playing the A chord listen to the song for timing.

E—————|
B–2-2-2-2-2-2–|
G–2-2-2-2-2-2–|
D–2-2-4-2-2-4–|
A—————|
E—————|

Heeey
Things won?t be strange any day now
They change every day
Hey things won?t be bad all the time now
Stay bad all the time
but hey now little lady this is a tragical sign
It?s sign,
Morning after midnight
Things don?t ever go right
Morning after midnight
Hey bye bye
not so sad to wake up
But I took the bait up
Morning after midnight
What?s going on yeah

Hey what?s that sound
might get a glimpse of just what?s going down
oh Modern lover what?s that noise
ah It?s just you Johnny not one of your boys
you say hey
Hey things won?t be strange any day now
Hey things won?t be bad all the time now
Stay bad all the time
but hey now little lady this is a tragical sign
it?s a sign, it?s a sign, it?s a sign
Morning after midnight
Things don?t ever go right
Morning after midnight
Hey bye bye
not so sad to wake up
But I took the bait up
Morning after midnight
hey cha cha cha